Young boy killed in fall at Hat Yai hotel

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Young boy killed in fall at Hat Yai hotel

By The Nation

 

Picture: Workpoint News

 

A five-year-old boy visiting his Malaysian father died when he fell from the eighth floor of a hotel in Songkhla’s Hat Yai district on Thursday night.

 

Police said the accident happened at 7pm at a well-known hotel in central Hat Yai.

 

The boy fell while his mother, Siriporn Saekuay, 35, was in the ground-floor lobby and his father was having a shower.

 

Police said CCTV footage showed the boy leaving his room and pushing open the nearby fire exit door.

 

Once in the fire exit the boy could not pull the door open and fell while trying to find a way to get back inside the hotel.

 

His mother said she and relatives had gone from Phichit to visit her Malaysian husband and they were staying in four rooms at the hotel.

Police are investigating whether the fire exit contributed to the death.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30356759

 

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[worgeordie]

RIP young one,it's sad to hear stories like this.

regards worgeordie

[Classic Ray]

Yes, blame the fire exit, not the poor contruction standard that allowed a five year old boy to climb/fall from a balcony or fire escape.

[Burma Bill]

Fire doors are "exit" only and cannot be opened from the outside for security reasons. The poor lad must have panicked on finding he could not re-enter the hotel and slipped in the confusion. Very sad - RIP little one.

[sanemax]

1 hour ago, Classic Ray said:

Yes, blame the fire exit, not the poor contruction standard that allowed a five year old boy to climb/fall from a balcony or fire escape.

No one is blaming the fire exit .

You are blaming the construction standard .

Sad that the boy died .

Why do you need to blame something and then suggest that others are doing the blaming ?

[catman20]

2 hours ago, Classic Ray said:

Yes, blame the fire exit, not the poor contruction standard that allowed a five year old boy to climb/fall from a balcony or fire escape.

id be laying the blame at the father door if anywhere. sorry, all very sad RIP young fella

[FitnessHealthTravel]

RIP to the young boy. Very sad for the parents.

[catman20]

13 hours ago, FitnessHealthTravel said:

RIP to the young boy. Very sad for the parents.

what was the father doing in the shower ? he should of been taking care of the kid. very hard for a parent i understand that but more to the point very sad for the kid who died.

[timendres]

13 hours ago, catman20 said:

what was the father doing in the shower ? he should of been taking care of the kid. very hard for a parent i understand that but more to the point very sad for the kid who died.

The father believed his son to be safely ensconced in a hotel room.

Any real parent knows it is impossible to be 100% safe 100% of the time for 18+ years.

Almost every parent can think of at least one time that they were blessed by luck to have avoided tragedy.

My heart goes out to those parents.

[catman20]

9 hours ago, timendres said:

The father believed his son to be safely ensconced in a hotel room.

Any real parent knows it is impossible to be 100% safe 100% of the time for 18+ years.

Almost every parent can think of at least one time that they were blessed by luck to have avoided tragedy.

My heart goes out to those parents.

i agree to a point with your post, my heart goes out to the kid the parents are still alive

[Classic Ray]

No one is blaming the fire exit .

You are blaming the construction standard .

Sad that the boy died .

Why do you need to blame something and then suggest that others are doing the blaming ?

They did say they are investigating whether the fire exit in the story contributed to the death. A proper fire exit would set off an alarm, have a breakable glass tube to prevent accidental opening by a child, or be on a fire door too heavy for a child to open.

 

There is no such thing as an accident in incidents like this. There has either been negligence in child supervision, design, in legislation, or construction, or a combination of these.

 

The much maligned (mainly Western) Health and Safety industry came into being to prevent these tragedies as far as possible. I expect no one will blame Indian Railways for allowing people to wander all over the tracks and get run down either?

 

 

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